Date: 23 August 1903
Pages: 177-178

Mr. Plekhanov
Lenin 2)
Petukhov
Krach [N. E. Bauman]
Ignat [P. A. Krasikov] Lidin [M. N. Lyadov]
Sokolovsky [Malkin] 3)
Berg [A. V. Shotman]
Smotinin [V. F. Gorin] Lidia Osipovna
Rashid-bek
Lebedev [S. I. Gusev]
[R. S. Zemlyachka]
[A. G. Zurabov] (2)
Nikolayev [worker An- Grigoryev [Stepanov]4)
dreу]
Psari [Topuridze].5)
Ruben [B. M. Knunyants] (2)
*Adopted.* 6)

*) The manuscript of G. V. Plekhanov's resolution represents a portion of the manuscript of the Congress protocols, as indicated by the notation on the manuscript: "Plekhanov's Resolution" (pp. 1-3) № 73", made by an outside hand, apparently during the compilation of the Congress protocols to indicate the place which the resolution was to occupy in the text of the protocols.

2) All the signatures below in the delegate's own hand, representing the Congress pseudonyms of the "majority" delegates, in the order of their arrangement (by columns), correspond to the signatures given under the resolution in the printed text of the protocols, with the only difference that all Congress pseudonyms in the printed text of the protocols were replaced by others ("Protocols", p. 330).

3) Malkin (Sokolovsky) — an Iskra activist; was a delegate to the II Congress of the R.S.-D.R.P. from the Ekaterinoslav Committee (according to the Congress protocols — Orlov); at the Congress he belonged to the "majority" group.

4) Stepanov (Grigoryev) — a social-democrat — Iskra activist, a worker; at the II Congress of the R.S.-D.R.P. was a delegate from the Tula Committee (according to the Congress protocols — Braun); at the Congress he belonged to the Iskra group of the "firm" line and after the split joined the "majority".

5) The signature of Psari (Topuridze) existing at the indicated place in the manuscript — apparently the very last one — is absent in the printed text of the protocols and apparently was deliberately omitted by the protocols commission (predominantly Menshevik in composition) not without the knowledge and consent of Topuridze himself, who after the Congress defected to the "minority".

6) This notation was made by P. A. Krasikov, who presided during the Congress's discussion of this resolution.

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In the "Compendium of Draft Resolutions" cited above, Lenin has an initial draft of his resolution on the attitude toward student youth (above, pp. 465-466). We have already indicated that Vladimir Ilyich introduced this resolution at the Congress, and it was adopted by the Congress with amendments by Makhov (Kalafati) and Trotsky (above, p. 467, note 7). Here we print this resolution in the form in which it passed at the Congress, from that very original which figured at the Congress and entered into the composition of the manuscript of the Congress protocols. This text editorially has certain insignificant differences from the text of the initial draft in the "Compendium" and differs somewhat also from the record in the Congress protocols. All these textual differences we note in the annotations. Besides that, the text reproduced here has retained two editorial amendments by Plekhanov. This resolution text was written, or more precisely, recopied with minor editorial changes from the initial draft in the "Compendium," apparently at the moment of the discussion of the resolution at the 57th session of the Congress, i.e., around 25 August, old style.

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**DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE ATTITUDE TOWARD STUDENT YOUTH** *)

[23 August 1903. London.]

The II Congress of the Russian S.-D.R.P. 1) greets the revival of revolutionary self-activity among student youth, proposes to all party organizations to render every assistance to this youth in its striving to organize, and recommends to all 2) groups and circles of students: first, to place foremost in 3) their activity the development* among their members of a comprehensive and consistent revolutionary world-outlook, serious familiarity, on the one hand, with Marxism, **) and on the other hand, with Russian Populism and Western European opportunism, as the chief currents among the contemporary contending progressive trends; second, to beware of those false friends [of the proletariat] of youth who divert it from serious revolutionary education by empty revolutionary or idealistic phraseology and philistine lamentations about the harm and needlessness 3) of sharp polemics between revolutionary and oppositional trends,

*) At the top of the manuscript in an unknown hand is written: "Lenin's". Ed.

**) Plekhanov crossed out "revolutionary" and wrote above it "socialist". Ed.